Between eating today we made time to check out Tron, a reboot of a cult classic1980s movie which was one of the earliest to take video games to the big screen, and possibly the first to feature CGI technology – it was going to be interesting to see how advances in CGI since that time could bring something different to the big screen.

Sam (Garrett Hedlund) loses his father (Jeff Bridges) at an early age – no one knows where he went or what happened to him but it was surely something connected to the ENCOM Corporation whom his father was involved in. Sam has been looking for his father ever since and when he is lead at last to an old arcade parlour and what seems to be an old computer of his father’s he is zapped into The Grid, a computer world developed by his father and where people seemingly live, fight and play. Sam seeks a way to bring his father back into the real world. Of course there is a hot gal, Oliva Wilde, there to also help him 😉

The story is much more complicated than that with evil henchmens, backstabbing etc. but the whole point of the movie is the visual effects – which were simply stunning. The most exciting part of the movie is that it is unlike anything that we’ve seen on the big screen today – and watching it gives that feel of nostalgia which takes you back to your childhood and those fun involved old school games. Some awesome costumes in the movie as well and great soundtrack.